Business Networking: 30 Day Plan to Building your on-line Presence
Here is your thirty day plan for leveraging social networks to build your business. This is a core part of getting an on-line presence established. It is probably the first thirty days that are the toughest, you are after all getting used to a strange new world. After this period it is largely about maintaining [...]
Time to Pause/Reflect? No – The Pace Goes on!
I have been silent these past few days. In part it has bee lack of triggering material and in part it has been the fact that I am defining a new Social Media solution as a part of my new role with a start-up company. However silence should not be seen as lack of thought [...]
Networking for Success!
Career outlooks within IT are changing at the current time. Over the last year there has been a major change within corporate IT.
Staying in work or getting a new job depend largely on having a strong network. Within your network quality is usually more important than quantity. However you may need to build a large [...]
A New World of Business Networking (and how it is different to Social Networking)
This article is being added as an incomplete milestone/commentary on the current state of Business Networking.
Not too long ago, on this site I asked the question “Is any Business Benefit Gained by Adopting Collaborative Technologies within the Workplace?” at that time I concluded that whilst there were significant benefits they would only be viable in [...]
Business Cannot turn its back on Deployment of Social Networking Technology. Who Must set Policy?
By Peter B. Giblett
In his article in Baseline “CIOs Must learn to Deal With Social Networking” Art Johnson argues that ‘CIOs can’t turn their backs on (Social Networking) technologies, which can provide many benefits. For example, the use of instant messaging has been a valuable tool for our employees.’
I agree that business cannot turn its [...]
Is any Business Benefit Gained by Adopting Collaborative Technologies within the Workplace?
Not too long ago few, if any, in the workplace could really justify accessing the web from their workplace. Justification would normally relate to access to externally hosted services that added value to the corporation, or alternatively to conduct research or resolve problems, and for the IT department download patches and upgrades.
Over time applications have [...]


